New Snapchat Spectacles redesign and features a “disaster,” says engineer who worked on them. Creating a good tech product requires more than just integrating all the impressi

Snap also unveiled a new, simplified version of the Snapchat app and announced a range of generative AI features for consumers, creators, and developers.

Snap Inc. on Tuesday (September 17) unveiled the company's new premium Augmented Reality smart glasses Spectacles (5th gen). It comes in a stylish design with a compact form factor. It weighs just 226 gms, less than half the weight of any conventional AR headgear.

Snapchat’s creator has a new version of its glasses, and a vision for more approachable augmented reality. But it’s still a preview, not a commercial product.

Snap’s latest generation of augmented reality Spectacles have been lambasted by one of the engineers who helped to create them. The glasses, revealed earlier this week, were described as “a disaster” by Sterling Crispin, a former design engineer for Snap.

Smart glasses are being touted as the way of the future, but at least one person who’s worked on such projects isn’t quite so sure. A former design engineer at Snap has lambasted the company’s latest augmented-reality Spectacles,

Augmented reality glasses overlay digital images onto a person’s view of the physical world. They’re different from virtual reality headsets that fully immerse people into a computer-generated environment.